From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3-rc0
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:24:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH_OBievcf-_z_AX9UrmWL_HVFT2vSQTu+wXAjAFeQBM8iFSGw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vvc78u8jl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
> outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
> making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object}
> can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify".
>
What does this mean / what is the reason behind this? I can only think
it might be useful in a test suite to make sure git isn't doing
anything stupid with hashes...?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-27 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-27 0:22 [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3-rc0 Junio C Hamano
2013-04-27 2:24 ` shawn wilson [this message]
2013-04-27 5:32 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-04-28 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-27 9:18 ` John Keeping
2013-04-29 3:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 19:15 ` [PATCH] Fix grammar in the 1.8.3 release notes Marc Branchaud
2013-04-29 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 21:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30 14:28 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-05-01 8:24 ` Lukas Fleischer
2013-05-01 14:06 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-05-01 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 21:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30 3:09 ` Eric Sunshine
2013-04-30 15:12 ` Phil Hord
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